The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-28
Joaquin Miller Talks About the Little
observation-disclosures Creatures.

JOAQUIN Miller Talks About the Little
CeIestiaIs-ARec Creatures.
To one who has seen all the world, there
is not so much that is picturesque in the
Chinese colony here; and L could not
truthfully indorse nearly all that enthu1-
astic tourists say of either their shrewd-
ness or interest in any way. For example,
as a lack of common sense, they have
marble and stone seats in one of their big
stores here to accommodate customers.
The best and biggest of these stone seats
have marble backs. Enough to paralyze
the spine of white man-even China
man, [ should think-in five minutes And
| could go through the colony here all
day, aud pick out dozens of like exhibit
lions of a low order of common sense.
Some color is to be found here, and that
is a relief to the eye which has to put up
with the mournful dress Of the average
Amer lean, after a residence in Mexico.
But it is not very picturesque. The pig
tail is simply repulsive. And Christian
Chinaman who had his hair cut is hardly
more attractive. His coarse, thick Tartar
hair is perhaps at its best when closely
shaver and tied up in a cue, after all AS
for the rolling, lolIing, lazy and hldeously
helpless Chinese women, know OF no OBJ
ject to which you can safely apply that
much used and much abused word, dis
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tally inane creatures.
The one real aud uninterrupted deIlghI
here is the Chinese children. They are not
very numerous; but they are bright, won
derfulIy full of fun, and very beautifully
dressed There is q confusion OF sex, now
ever Did [ ever tell you that Mexican
boy baby puts on his little pantaloons the
day he is born and wears them right along?
Well. the babies of both sexes here seem
tO do that so far as | can lind out.
1t is worth while any day to climb the
hill into the heart of San Francisco, ana
half way to the top, to see these children
run and tumble and laugh and play IN
their peculiar and highly cOlored clothes,
lust like other children. They have not
much room, but they are chock full Oh
heart and light spirits, and make the most
of what little room they have in their mar
row streets Like little donkey or lit
tie darby, the Chinaman is at his best, SO
far as personal levity goes, when ne Is
very small.
No trouble seems to come this way Tor
these kittenish little hea5 hens, these curl
Gus little citizens, tumbling around uhder
the legs of their sedate sires up mere on
the pleasant hill overlooking the glorious
bay and all the battle ships. The boycott
and the Chinese question are terms Whlcn
reckon they have never heard. AND
whatever may De tied up for them III thelr
uncertain future, let them shout out Che
spirit of play that is in them now 10 Che
full. Care will come soon enough 10 our
coiored citizens of Asiatic descent.
The Chinese parent is the most affection
ate I ever saw among all the nations OF
the earth. And this may be in part be-
cause the children are not numerous mere
but it is no guess work to say that IT Is
largely because the child reveres the
parent. To see a little fellow quit his play
suddenly and run and lay his little red OF
yellow silk head up against his aaorln ~
father "a he stands on the sidewalk
watching him, is funny, if not affecting
JOAQUIN Miller in Chicago Times.